A friend of mine says that taking drops under her tongue for her allergies has changed her life. Is it safe and effective?
- John W., Boynton Beach, Fla.
Glad the sublingual immunotherapy or SLIT - that's what it's called - is working for her.

• Whatever It Takes Athens: Donations of Band-Aids for students at Clarke Middle School. Band-Aids are needed to help make it through the last month of school. A family at a local school also is in need of a couch.

NORCROSS — Police have charged a high school student headed to an after-prom party with vehicular homicide and reckless driving in a crash that killed one of the girls in his car and injured three other students.

DENVER — Three Florida siblings accused in a multistate crime spree that involved a daring bank robbery in Georgia were given prison time Monday on charges in Colorado, where they were captured after a nationwide manhunt.

Mayor Nancy Denson is proposing cutting night bus service again to help balance Athens-Clarke County's 2013 budget.
Denson released a $107.5 million budget plan Monday that includes ending Athens Transit bus service at 8 p.m.
Buses ran until 11 p.m.

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas military boarding school embroiled in a lawsuit alleging widespread abuse of cadets ordered its students last week to surrender their cellphones, and a staff member reviewed photos and videos stored on them and then deleted hundreds of images related to the school, according to a document filed Monday in federal court.

BALTIMORE — Microsoft and the banking industry on Monday provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of an operation they said disrupted a major cybercrime operation that used malicious software to allegedly steal $100 million from consumers over the last five years.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide an affair he was having and justified using wealthy donors' money to do it.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is appropriate to mark an anniversary that Republicans charge is being turned into a campaign bumper sticker.

NEW YORK — The section of highway where an accident sent seven members of a Bronx family flying over a guardrail and plummeting to their deaths has narrow lanes, steep hills, tight turns, inadequate guardrails and no breakdown lane, an auto safety group said Monday.

WASHINGTON — The blind Chinese lawyer at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing is a taboo topic in each capital. Neither side wants the biggest human-rights issue between the two since Tiananmen Square to disrupt high-level strategic and economic talks set to begin on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — A man was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison after authorities said he smuggled dozens of live turtles and tortoises from Japan into the U.S. by hiding them in snack food boxes.

NEW YORK — A day after three generations of a family died in a horrifying crash that sent their SUV plunging off a highway into a ravine, a grieving husband said Monday he was so shocked he could barely think — or even feel.

While May 1 is designated Law Day in the United States, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, chief judge of the U.S. Southern District of Georgia, says we Americans should remember that every day is a day of law in this country. There would be anarchy without it.

In the 1993 movie "Dave" the faux president (played by Kevin Kline) calls in his best friend (played by Charles Grodin) and they stay up all night balancing the federal budget, not by raising taxes, but by cutting unnecessary and wasteful spending.

Jalen Banks, Jesse Tallent, Jackson County: In Thursday’s 4-2 victory over Banks County, Banks pitched five innings, allowing one hit and no earned runs and Tallent earned the save by striking out four batters in two innings and had two hits and an RBI. On Tuesday, Tallent had two hits, including a home run, and three RBIs as the Panthers beat Dawson County 7-1.

Current Georgia golfer Brian Carter's preparation for this weekend's Stadion Classic at the UGA Golf Course was delayed until late afternoon Monday.
"I had to go to class," the redshirt sophomore said.

When the Athens Academy baseball team's hopes to extend its season came down to a win-or-go-home duel with Athens Christian last Thursday, the Spartans put the ball in senior right-hander Lake Lindsay's hands.